Card Table Maker: Unknown

1785–1800

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Mahogany and bird's eye maple veneer; ebony and holly inlay.

Dimensions

29 1/2 × 36 × 17 5/8 in. (74.9 × 91.5 × 44.8 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2700

Geography

Made in New England

Culture

American

Period

19th century

Classification

Furniture

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Provenance
With Charles Woolsey Lyon (1872–1945), Albany and New York; sold to Francis P. Garvan (1875–1937), New York, by 1930; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1930
Bibliography
  • David L. Barquist, Elisabeth Donaghy Garrett, and Gerald W. R. Ward, American Tables and Looking Glasses in the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 182, no. 84, ill
  • Edwin A. Battison and Patricia E. Kane, The American Clock, 1725–1865: The Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University (Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, 1973), 162–63, ill
  • Edgar G. Miller, American Antique Furniture: A Book for Amateurs, 2 vols. (Baltimore: Lord Baltimore Press, 1937), vol. 2, pp. 790–91, no. 1525
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

card tables

Inscriptions

"C 12 39" is written in crayon on the underside of the top.

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